Originally Posted by deranged_damsel
whew! I finally have all of my book pages scanned in to the computer.
I cant remember the enlargment size for 10 inch squares :roll: If any of yall can help me out here I would apprechiate it.
question: is it just me or in the original do the blocks seem crowded????
it is probably just my strange brain, but I was thinking of copying the pattern a little smaller than exact scale, so... my blocks can BREATH better.
What you are looking at in the book is 7in blocks, so the gap between the motifs is smaller than when everything is sized up. In fact, when I added the outer row of blocks, the gaps between blocks 1 & 2, and 1 & 7 (and the other corners) was so large I added in some extra embroidery, because it was just over three inches between the motifs (at the narrowest part) and looked decidedly bare.
You would also have to consider what you intended to do with the outermost (largest) border if you go down the route of putting in extra sashing. It wouldn't be a problem if you do your own thing with that border, but if you want to use the one Aie designed, adding in sashing will throw it out completely and it isn't going to fit.